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Motty Borger's father speaks out.http://www.chofetzchaimusa.org/requestfromshmuelborger.mp3

hat tip to Vicki Polin

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Shmuel borger - in costume or au naturale?

H'moon hotel leap
By Liz Sadler and Kirsten Fleming, New York Post

A newlywed groom on his honeymoon yesterday plunged to his death from a Brooklyn hotel in an apparent suicide — as his bride slept, unaware of the tragedy, sources said.

Motty Borger, 24, died at Lutheran Medical Center after the seven-story plunge from The Avenue Plaza Hotel in Borough Park — just two days after marrying his love, Mali, in a lavish ceremony, according two sources.

Borger's bride was sleeping in the room when her husband, who worked with his videographer dad, opened a window, stepped onto the balcony and jumped at 6:45 a.m.

Mali didn't know what had happened until she was awakened by the hotel concierge.

Friends were shocked at the young man's death, saying there was no sign at Borger's wedding in Williamsburg on Tuesday that he'd try to end his life.

"He sang, he danced, he was the happiest kid on the planet," said a friend who was at the wedding among 500 pals and loved ones.

"The guy was super energetic," said another reveler.

The couple shared a meal of boiled salmon Wednesday night in a postwedding celebration and seemed to be in good spirits.

"They were both happy," said a waiter.

"They were laughing, talking about what they should order."

Detectives were poring over security video, including a clip that shows an agitated Borger in an elevator with his wife.

A police source described Borger as "emotionally disturbed."

The apparent suicide stunned family members who just 48 hours earlier were celebrating the young couple's union.

"The guy was so full of life," a friend said. "He was so happy to marry her."

Friends said they couldn't believe Borger would want to kill himself or that there could have been any marital strife.

"She's a nice, sweet girl," a friend said of the bride. "They have money, so that wasn't a problem

when i first started The Awareness Center I had never heard of Carlebach. I received over a hundred phone calls from women all over the world who were victimized by him. I had to ask around about him. One highly respected rabbi explained to me that "Carlebach loved his women". He went on to say that Carlebach had at least one woman a day. Times that by 40 years. . . Then figure out why I got so many calls.

Carlebach didn't just sexually harass women, he really reached out and touched them against their will. The youngest I know of was 13. I just got an e-mail yesterday from a woman in her 70's who still has nightmares about him.

btw she's asking for nedoves:
The Awareness Center, Inc.
(the international Jewish Coalition Against Sexual Abuse/Assault)
P.O. Box 65273, Baltimore, MD 21209
www.theawarenesscenter.org
443-857-5560

in the name of full disclosure:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRYm5YtaCQo

Oprah has lots of extra bucks for Rebbetzin Vicki

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/opinion/09friedman.html?_r=1

I was going to write a poem while walking on Eastern Parkway but chanced upon a Psalm when I suddenly found myself outside the Rebbe's room.Forget the poem, David's way better…

PSALM 88

1 1 A song; a psalm of the Korahites. For the leader; according to Mahalath. For singing; a maskil of Heman the Ezrahite. 2 LORD, my God, I call out by day; at night I cry aloud in your presence. 3 Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry. 4 2 For my soul is filled with troubles; my life draws near to Sheol. 5 I am reckoned with those who go down to the pit; I am weak, without strength. 6 My couch is among the dead, with the slain who lie in the grave. You remember them no more; they are cut off from your care. 7 You plunged me into the bottom of the pit, into the darkness of the abyss. 8 Your wrath lies heavy upon me; all your waves crash over me. Selah 9 Because of you my friends shun me; you make me loathsome to them; Caged in, I cannot escape; 10 my eyes grow dim from trouble. All day I call on you, LORD; I stretch out my hands to you. 11 3 Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the shades arise and praise you? Selah 12 Is your love proclaimed in the grave, your fidelity in the tomb? 13 Are your marvels declared in the darkness, your righteous deeds in the land of oblivion? 14 But I cry out to you, LORD; in the morning my prayer comes before you. 15 Why do you reject me, LORD? Why hide your face from me? 16 I am mortally afflicted since youth; lifeless, I suffer your terrible blows. 17 Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have reduced me to silence. 18 All the day they surge round like a flood; from every side they close in on me. 19 Because of you companions shun me; my only friend is darkness.

Comment by Yaqov Sack on Long Live the Holy Good Name

 Yea for Radha expressing what we all are honestly afraid to say.

The malady that yet carries us all -

this blight on our soul,

always hidden,

always there in the heaven of Jimmy Steward.

All rights are wrong.

All pain is gone as GOD wipes the tear from every eye.

Radha is a sort of a bad Jesus, the man you love to hate.

this is no concession.

I am not patronizing anyone,

but what if the word of the living God were somehow embedded in our Torah?

What fools we’d be for never having suspected,

for having gone down the 9th of Av: the path of destruction,

fully aware of self-deceit,

condemned to everlasting hell for doing the right thing that's wrong,

the bad thing that's good,

the acquiescence to evil that constituted the best decision to who?

to our own best interest.

Sacrificing the world to our own best interest,

on the altar of greed,

on our knees,

standing free of tisha b'AV - our father,

who was destroyed by some filthy Arab of our own creation,

relation,

of whom I ought to be.

We gatta protest Apple generally and the i-phone specifically.

http://tr.im/tjVC

hat tip to Ben Atlas

Tehran, December 1978

Tehran, June 2009

In light of 7FATCOW being as alive as a pro-Mousavi blog in Tehran, it is appropriate to break this track of slow traffic by bringing you DIRECT reports from those in Iran. A Cow has been in regular touch with residents in Tehran since Election Day in Iran over a week ago, and has heard confirmation of many of the reports and images we've been seeing lately. Here are some more details to fill in the gaps. According to 7fatcow's Tehran informant, who lives in the south near Tehran University:

* Already on Election Evening, when they kept the polls open for an extra 4 hours, the feeling was that practically everyone in line to vote expressed that they were voting for Mousavi. And this was in South Tehran. Unlike Iranians' general mannerisms to push & cut in line etc., everyone was very cordial, even letting otehrs go ahead of them.

 * It is rumored that many of a basijis are speaking Arabic, the assumption being that they are Hamas or Hezbollah members trained in Iran.

* It is the women who are the most brave & have been at the forefront of the green movement from the beginning.

* The calls from the rooftops every night from 10PM on reached a cresendo  Saturday night and is still continuing every night.

* Contrary to the images we see, Tehran is not at a standstill (at least not until today), and Tehranis that need to go about their daily business know to avoid certain areas.

* After Saturday, the people were "in a state of shock" on Sunday from the brutality of the forces.

*  The general mood is that this will take a while & that more "sacrifices" will be needed.

* Travel out of the country seems to still be open, as long as you are not "suspect."

* Before the elections, the anti-cleric secular Iranians debated if they should sit this election out too or vote for Mousavi anyways, despite his being part of the Islamic Republic. While some secularists did sit it out, many DID go and vote for Mousavi, for they see him as a catalist to greater freedoms.

Much of the above may be known to some already, but hearing it live from over there directly gives it ever more validity.

Yes, I know the neo-con & right-wing Israeli views that there is no difference between Mousavi and Ahmadinejad, or that this will ironically make it more difficult for the West to halt Iran's nuclear aspirations, or that this is another case of "limakeh Mitzrayim bivchoreyhem" so who cares? — But lifee aniyus da'ati haklushoh this is nisht oysgehalten, for several reasons:

 1) Even if true, Mousavi is "the lesser of two evils."

2) Think of Mousavi as Gorbachov, who was the precursor for Yeltsin.   

3) Despite Mousavi's central role at the beginning of the revolution, he has certainly moderated, and is even at the point of critisizing some essential aspects of the Islamic Republic. Think of him as in the process of "teshuvah." This has been attested by people who know him for the past 20 years since he left politics until a couple of months ago (e.g. the filmmaker Machmalbuf who knows him during this period). Though he may never admit that the revolution was essentially wrong, he is certainly blowing big holes in the fundamentalist abslutism of the status-quo. (Even Rafsanjani seems to have changed his hardline views a=concerning the revolution, though one must certainly view him with more scepticism and opportunism.)

4)  He is certainly more trustworthy when it comes to "the Bomb."

5) Not supporting him now will send a counter-productive message to all those valient protesters, which include anti-cleric secular Iranians.

6) The opposition MUST stay united. The big flaw of 1978-9 was that the Marxists & the Socialists & Communists etc. were factionalized with inner quibbling, which enabled the Islamists under Khomeini to take over. In fact, there was a brief moment of secular rule for a few months until the Ayyatolah took over (not unlike the Reds pushing out the Whites aty the beginning of the Soviet revolution).

7) Not supporting Mousavi now in order for Ahmadinejad to remain in power so that the West can use this as final "proof" that Iran is extremely radical & hence untrustworthy, meriting to bomb their nuclear sites, will only unite the opposition with the currect regime against this external threat.

8 ) Playing into the Shiite ideology of martyrdom, the more protesters killed, the stronger the opposition becomes validated as being the true heir of Imam Hussain, grandson of the Prophet — the creation myth, so to speak, of Shiite Islam and mesiras nefesh. The more the opposition demonstrates and fataly fall, the stronger they become.

 So do not be dismayed if the opposition uses Islamic slogans & scream "allahu akbar." If anything, the protesters are spitting "Virtuous Islam" back in the face of Khamenei, making him unable to claim that they are anti-religious agitators. Let's just hope that the young Iranians do not fall back into an opium stupor, as many of this generation in Iran have.

Yidden! Goyim! it is time to take a stand up for those whose blood is spilling for freedom!!! 

Here are some sites for un-to-the minute info on what is going on.:

http://niacblog.wordpress.com/

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/

There are several others, including facebook (e.g. for the young woman Neda who was killed & dies on camera) & flickr photo sites & much video etc. etc., but this is a start. The guardian and BBC have also been on top of it, as has Reuters etc.

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article of how Western companies helped Iran install a sophosticated system to spy on the content of all internet & email outlets in the country, & even able to rewrite content with misinformation. Read it here:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124562668777335653.html

There is so much more, so until next report,  LONG LIVE FREEDOM!!!

Hachoisem bidmo'oys sholish vidam,

Mino'i,

Zoro

Islamo

Yid

(kishmoy kein hu)

PS: Wondering what Neturei Karta's position is on all this. Mohammad, please?

First responders did not take too long to ascertain the extent of the tragedy, a family that was returning from a family chasnah. Hatzolah volunteers immediately began CPR on the gravely injured father, but ultimately, it was understood that it was not meant to be and a MDA physician from the Yarkon district on the scene pronounced him dead, just a few short hours after he was dancing at the chasnah of a son.

Four children, family of the bride, were injured, with two listed in serious condition on Monday morning and the others moderate.

http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/General+News/35914/Tragedy+on+the+Way+Home+from+a+Chasnah+%5BUPDATED+IN+ARTICLE%5D.html

PARKING LOT IN JERUSALEM TO BE OPEN THIS SHABBOS